Cities in the United States and Canada are reembracing policing after being inundated with violent crime.

Last month, the Canadian city of Vancouver rebuked its soft-on-crime status quo and overwhelmingly elected the pro-police A Better City party. Vancouverites had grown exasperated with the frequent stabbings, assaults, thefts, and acts of vandalism that had turned parts of the downtown core into no-go zones. Chinese Canadians were particularly vocal, due to rampant violence against Asian seniors in Chinatown. At the same time, Ottawa, Canada’s capital, decisively elected a centrist pro-police mayor in lieu of Catherine McKenney, a liberal city councilor who often vilified the city’s police force and previously tried to slash its budget.